Britain: Anyone Can Be Lonely

In the London suburb of St. Albans one
afternoon last week, a spry, retired accountant named Robert Turner,
70, tucked a notebook into his pocket and set out on a special call. In
an hour's visit with Retired Clerk Leslie Wilson, Turner chatted about
old times and admired the abstract paintings that Wilson does as a
hobby. When he got home, Turner wrote a short report of the visit,
mailed it off to the London offices of Unilever Ltd., for which both
men once worked.

Ex-Accountant Turner is part of a modest but highly effective
organization through which Unilever, the...